1 . Taking a holiday doesn’t mean letting go of all the eco-friendly choices. There are many ways you can have a much-deserved break without harming the environment.

Forget planes. While most forms of transport produce carbon dioxide, planes have a massive carbon footprint because of the huge number of miles they travel.     1     Many of us ignore the endless beautiful scenery around us. There’s the outstanding beauty of the Mississippi River.

Alternatively, you can drive your car to the Grand Canyon to see its splendor.

Pack with care.     2     All of their bottles, from shampoo and conditioner to body wash and moisturizer (润肤霜), are now made from recycled plastic that can be repurposed again and again so no new plastic is produced. And their iconic soap bars now also come in plastic-free packaging.

    3     Hotels can be huge producers of greenhouse gases. Think about the water that’s wasted and all the buffet food that goes uneaten. So choose an eco-friendly option instead. Camping and a home stay — where you live with a family in their own home — are two of the best options. But if you insist on staying in the hotel, pick one made from sustainable materials.     4    

Buy gifts responsibly. Bringing back gifts for friends and loved ones is part of the fun of a holiday.     5     Avoid anything plastic, or if it is plastic, make sure it is 100% recyclable, and make sure your friends will love whatever you give them so it isn’t just thrown in the bin headed for landfill.

3 . Raden is a librarian in Indonesia’s Java island. She is ________ books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a(n) ________ way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.

Each weekday she rides her three-wheeler with books for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other ________ that she carries back.

She is helping inculcate(灌输)________ in the kids and make them ________ of the environment. The moment she ________, little children, many ________ by their mothers, surround her “Trash Library” demanding books ________.

They are all carrying trash bags and Radon’s three-wheeler quickly fills up with them as the books ________ out. She’s ________ the kids are going to spend less time on online games as a result She ________ about 100 kg of waste each week, which is then sorted out by her colleagues and sent for ________ or sold. She has 6, 000 books to lend and wants to take the mobile ________ to neighboring areas too.

Kevin Alamsyah, an 11-year-old reader,________ for waste lying in the village. “When there is too much trash, our environment will become dirty and it’s not healthy. That’s why I look for trash to borrow a book,” he says.

The literacy(读写能力)rate for above-15-year-olds in Indonesia is around 96 percent, but the pandemic(流行病)will ________ more than 80% of 15-year-olds below the minimum reading proficiency(熟练)level.

4 . For every goal that Lesein Mutunkei scores, trees get planted. It’s a simple yet effective message that appeals, and leads to a satisfying way of motivating us to promote environmentalism in our own way.

Born in Nairobi, Lesein is in his late teens, and his Trees4Goals is the means with which he intends to make the world greener. It unites two of his passions in life: love of the outdoors and love of football. Lesein enjoyed walking in the forest. He recognised his country was experiencing a serious loss of tree cover. Between 2001 and 2020, Kenya lost an estimated 11% of trees, releasing 176 million tons of CO₂.

In a blog post for WWF Kenya, Lesein revealed that, once he started the Trees4Goals initiative, he originally planned to plant one tree per goal. In 2020, he wanted to take his efforts even further. What started as one tree planted per goal mushroomed into 11 trees planted per goal. Explaining the reason behind expanding the tree-planting, he said, “It represents team efforts in football and the contribution by my team. I have planted over 1,000 trees in the last two years.”

While it’s something of an own goal to destroy the forests and jungles providing enormous biodiversity, initiatives like Trees4Goals are an assured way to score an environmentalist hat-trick. Sports such as football are popular with the booming Kenyan population and have the ability to cut through cultural barriers regardless of the countries they are played in. Sports have the power to unify and excite large audiences. Lesein Mutunkei has taken this strategy and scored a winning goal of his own.

Like a seed, best ideas start small and change into something that can become far larger than anticipated. While Lesein continues planting 11 trees per goal, the Kenyan government is aiming to plant 1.8 billion trees to reach a point where 10 per cent of the country is covered by trees. The science behind is clear; a report in 2019 claimed that if 900 million hectares were devoted to additional tree planting of half a trillion trees, the world could offset (抵消) half of all carbon emissions produced since 1960.

For the last few years, pollution     1    (take) away all the beauty of the beaches of Hawaii. I hate to go to the beaches on     2     sunny weekend and see rubbish bags     3    (lie) on the sand, cigarette butts buried in the sand, and soda cans floating in the ocean.

One thing that really annoys me is that I see tourists who visit Hawaii leave     4    (they) rubbish on the beaches. I was always taught after drinking soda to throw the can into     5     it should stay-the trash can. Another thing that annoys me is that some people walk right by rubbish     6     they pretend that it’s not there.

Animals are not to blame     7     it. Instead, it’s our humans’ fault and we must blame ourselves. Each of us should take our responsibilities     8    (settle) this problem. It can’t be difficult to do the job. There are a lot of things that we can do. First of all, we can help pick up rubbish along the beaches. We could also form     9    (organize) that help clean up our beaches.     10    (important), we need to start now before the beaches are damaged beyond repair.

10 . In a county of Britain, a pair of pig farmers has managed to feed one million bees by turning over half of their land to wildflowers. Four years ago, brothers Mark and Paul Hayward decided to fill 81 acres of their farm land with wildflowers. This week, a study found they were feeding one million bees at any time.

“This was our target when we started, to, grow enough flowers to feed a million bees on a single day.” Mark said. “We are acutely aware that bees are under threat from modern farming methods and that East England is one of the worst places where bees are seriously suffering from lack of wildflower diversity,” he continued.

“Every third bite of food you eat can come from bees and we wanted to create an operation on our farm that did not push nature out but rather hugged it-as a central part of our ecology system and our food cycle,” he said.

The farm uses all kinds of seeds which can produce many different wild plants and of course, the bees can get food from different wildflowers.

“We are taking a very small role in helping society restore a balance and this starts with plant diversity to encourage insects, bees, small mammals(哺乳动物), and birds,” said Paul. “At the end of the day, we see ourselves as caretakers of this land. Between us we have six children and we owe it to them to farm sustainability(持续性)and set an example for the generations to come,” added Paul.

According to the Bee Conservation Trust, many types of bees have seen their populations decline by 70%, and two species have become extinct in the last century.

Gill Perkins, CEO of the Bee Conservation Trust said, “Thanks to Mark and Paul, at least here, a million bees can keep living, which is of great significance for ourselves now and future.”